RECITATIVE. Foremost and leaning from her golden cloud The venerable Margaret fee! "Welcome, my noble fon, (fhe cries aloud) "To this thy kindred train, and me: Pleas'd in thy lineaments, we trace A Tudor's fire *, a Beaufort's + grace. AIR. "Thy liberal heart, thy judging eye, 64 The flower unheeded fhall defcry, 66 And bid it round heaven's altars fhed "The fragrance of its blufhing head: "Shall raife from earth the latent gem "To glitter on the diadem. " Lo, + The bloods of the Stuarts and of the Tudors were united by the marriage of a King of Scotland to a daughter of Henry VII. The father of the last named King, married the daughter of Beaufort Duke of Somerfet. " RECITATIVE. "Lo, Granta waits to lead her blooming band, "Not obvious, not obtrusive, she "No vulgar praife, no venal incenfe flings; "Nor dares with courtly tongue refin'd "Profane thy inborn royalty of mind: "She reveres herfelf and thee. "With modeft pride to grace thy youthful brow "The laureate wreath that Cecil wore fhe brings, "And to thy juft, thy gentle hand "Submits the fafces of her fway, While spirits blest above, and men below, 66 Join, with glad voice, the loud fymphonious lay. GRAND |